The Safe Haven

No music. No podcasts. No audiobooks. No journal. No pen. No books. No radio. No shelter. No camera crew. No conversation. Just you, in the Arctic, ALONE.

The History Channel’s show Alone follows a group of contestants as they explore an area – in Season 7, the most extreme challenge yet, the Arctic! – for 100 days. The stakes were high this season, with $1,000,000 as the prize for the winner.

Out of the ten contestants, two were women, and one of those women was from Ontario, Canada. Sitting on the couch watching the show, I told my partner that I was going to have this woman on the podcast, and here we are!

Kielyn joins me on today’s episode, and we hear about her journey into this experience, the lead-up and the weight gain, the mental and emotional pulls and takeaways throughout the time in the Arctic, and what coming back home and reintegration was like. Kielyn shares a little about her business, Lure of the North, and what their next huge business endeavours are!

Kielyn made it to day 80 on her quest to 100 days Alone in the Arctic, and I am thrilled to honour Kielyn and her experience with my 100th episode! So fitting!

There are a few connection issues – but they don’t last long! We hope you love it.

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LINKS:

Lure of the North on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/lureofthenorth

Lure of the North on Instagram: @lureofthenorth

Lure of the North Website: lureofthenorth.com

Frequency Podcast Network: The Safe Haven

Facebook: The Safe Haven

Instagram: @thesafehavenpodcast

Email: [email protected]

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The Canary Yellow wasn’t started to just share his music. It was created to resonate with an audience that needs the love, support, compassion and companionship that Josh needed through his early life.

Josh moved around a lot as a kid, and through various family structures and experiences, found music to be his safety. Music allows for deep insight and self exploration, and has proven that although beautiful things can come from dark places, joy and light can be found in such small moments. Growing into the role of a husband and recently a father, life has begun to unfold in ways that allow Josh to keep navigating his own struggles with mental health while creating safe spaces for the next generation to feel less alone, while owning their experiences and honouring their emotions.

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LINKS:

Josh’s Website: https://thecanaryyellow.carrd.co/

Josh’s Instagram: @thecanaryyellow

Frequency Podcast Network: The Safe Haven

Facebook: The Safe Haven

Instagram: @thesafehavenpodcast

Email: [email protected]

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Aundra Williams is a blogger, a speaker, and a coach. She is the creator of a beautiful Christian blog, where she writes to her readers about faith and self-improvement. She teaches about biblical principals and how to put it into a lifestyle.

She works with girls and young women to establish healthy boundaries, increase self-confidence, and speak their truth.

Aundra moved from a small town in Michigan to California to chase her dream of being a full-time blogger. What she didn’t know when she left was that her incredible success and building a full time business would be established during a global pandemic lockdown.

In this conversation, we talk about so many things, from the power of strong friendships, to how love can be right under your nose.

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LINKS:

Aundra’s Website: https://www.aundrawilliams.com/

Aundra’s Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/AundraWilliams1

Aundra’s Instagram: @aundra.williams

Frequency Podcast Network: The Safe Haven

Facebook: The Safe Haven

Instagram: @thesafehavenpodcast

Email: [email protected]

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Warning: Content relating to the death of Bianca’s sister, Katrina, who died from Ovarian Cancer.

Bianca Hayes is a force. This summer, she biked from Vancouver to Halifax in 19 days and 18 hours. Bianca Hayes was never an avid cyclist. Her inspiration to ride came from the aspiration to raise money and awareness for Ovarian Cancer.

Bianca’s sister Katrina died in 2018 from Ovarian Cancer, which is the fifth most common cancer but most deadly of all women’s cancers.

August 2018 was the first real serious bike ride she’d been on, using a borrowed bike. Two years later, with training, sponsorship and a coach, Bianca set out to bike across Canada and is now the fastest woman to ever complete the ride.

In this episode, Bianca shares the story of Katrina’s diagnosis with Ovarian Cancer, and her experience as Katrina’s sister, as well as the inspiration and steps that led to her committing to the big ride across the country.

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LINKS:

Bianca’s Website + Donation Pages: www.biancahayes.com

Bianca Hayes on Twitter: @theovariangang

Bianca Hayes on Instagram: @theovariangang

Ovarian Cancer Canada: https://ovariancanada.org/

World Ovarian Cancer: https://worldovariancancercoalition.org/

Frequency Podcast Network: The Safe Haven

Facebook: The Safe Haven

Instagram: @thesafehavenpodcast

Email: [email protected]

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Over the past several months, I’ve been taking a really critical look at marketing and advertising. During my deep dives, I came across Jacqueline Carrington’s Instagram page, and her company, People of Color Beauty.

After years in the hotel industry, Jackie and her husband made some big life changes and began growing their family. Along with the changes in location and jobs, Jackie took on a whole new role as an entrepreneur, and started up a nail polish company!

In this episode, Jackie shares her stories and the ideas behind People of Color Beauty, as well as how she finds time for herself in order to maintain her best self, under the many hats she wears!

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LINKS:

People of Color Beauty: www.peopleofcolorbeauty.com

People of Color Beauty’s Instagram: @peopleofcolorbeauty

Frequency Podcast Network: The Safe Haven

Facebook: The Safe Haven

Instagram: @thesafehavenpodcast

Email: [email protected]

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For anyone with a passion, old or new, you completely understand the time, effort, love, sweat and tears it takes to complete a project, a painting, a quilt, a new build, a new idea, and in this case, a podcast.

Tara Jean Stevens is a broadcaster, an actress, a storyteller, and most recently a podcast host.

In this episode, we chat about the creation of Heaven Bent, Tara Jean’s new podcast on Frequency Podcast Network, and how she was able to put this together and produce it all during a global pandemic. Tara Jean tells us about family travels during what she calls her mid life crisis, and the true meaning behind passion and balance when it comes to creating a podcast.

For anyone interested, this is the podcast description for Heaven Bent on Frequency Podcast Network, and you can find the direct links below.

On January 20th, 1994, strange things started happening at a small Christian church in Toronto, Canada. Worshipers found themselves laughing, shaking, falling, rolling around on the ground. That was only the beginning. How did the church suddenly become one of Toronto’s ‘Top Tourist Attractions’? Was something supernatural truly happening? Did gold teeth miraculously appear in people’s mouths? Tara Jean Stevens was a teenager when this bizarre movement spread from Toronto to her childhood church on the other side of the country. More than 25 years later, join Tara Jean as she explores what really happened – on this examination of divine intervention.”

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LINKS:

Tara Jean Stevens’ Instagram: @tarajeanonline

Frequency Podcast Network: Heaven Bent

Frequency Podcast Network: The Safe Haven

Facebook: The Safe Haven

Instagram: @thesafehavenpodcast

Email: [email protected]

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Imagine going from near perfect health, talking, walking, working, and living your best life, to completely paralyzed and fighting for your life within days.

In this episode, Mallory Bishop shares her experience with an upper respiratory infection gone wrong, with symptoms that progressed so quickly she found herself completely paralyzed from the neck down only days later.

The diagnosis was Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a rare neurological disorder where your immune system attacks your nervous system. In Mallory’s case, it stripped her peripheral nervous system and left her almost completely paralyzed for months.

This story blew my mind. This conversation is a perfect example of why I never want to know too much about my guest’s story before hearing it in full. You’ll hear my surprise and disbelief while experiencing your own as Mal shares her experience.

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LINKS:

Mallory’s Instagram: @malroseplace

Frequency Podcast Network: The Safe Haven

Facebook: The Safe Haven

Instagram: @thesafehavenpodcast

Email: [email protected]

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Marcie is a writer, a blogger, a wife and a Mom. She’s the creator of many online spaces that she calls brave spaces, most namely Black Coffee with White Friends and Mockingbird, history lessons for adults.

Marcie is one incredible person, and this conversation sits right in my heart. In this episode, Marcie shares the stories behind how these ventures began, and how at the root of them were the crucial conversations that need to be had about history, race, identity, and what it is to be Marcie. These conversations are woven with such a beautiful sense of vulnerability and so much truth, including personal practices, finding balance in the world today, and what deepest challenges and biggest rewards have been like for Marcie in her life.

At the end of most episodes, I pull out some of my Safe Haven style questions… just wait until you hear the stories about Marcie’s Mom during that part of our fabulous conversations!! I literally was speechless listening to these stories.

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LINKS:

Black Coffee with White Friends: www.blackcoffeewithwhitefriends.com

Black Coffee with White Friends Instagram: @blackcoffeewithwhitefriends

Mockingbird Patreon: www.patreon.com/mockingbirdhistorylessonsforadults

Frequency Podcast Network: The Safe Haven

Facebook: The Safe Haven

Instagram: @thesafehavenpodcast

Email: [email protected]

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Jess Pinili is a Female Empowerment Coach from Perth, Australia. With her background in personal training and personal life experiences, she blends spirituality, life-experience, and strategy into her methods, working to help uplift her clients and those around her.

Starting into a business degree program and getting involved in fitness, Jess realized she needed something more. Through her own personal struggles and grief and life transitions, she has created a platform and business model that helps people all over the world shift their limiting beliefs and change their mindset to establish confidence and control over their own life.

Jess’s mission is to help YOU uncover the sensational potential you have inside of you.

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LINKS:

Jess Pinili’s Instagram: @jesspinili

Jess Pinili’s Podcast: The Jessica Pinili Podcast

Jess Pinili’s Website: www.jessicapinili.com

Frequency Podcast Network: The Safe Haven

Facebook: The Safe Haven

Instagram: @thesafehavenpodcast

Email: [email protected]

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*Trigger Warning – Contains content relating to sexual abuse and assault; some explicit language.**

Eternity Martis is a Toronto-based journalist, author and senior editor at Xtra. She’s now a best-selling author of her first book, “They Said This Would Be Fun – Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up.” Eternity’s work focuses on issues of race and gender, taking deep dives into her own experiences and sharing them with the world. Her stories are real, raw, and relatable.

Our conversation covers so much about the journey through writing this book and many of the topics and experiences shared within. We talk about setting boundaries and the challenge that comes with having to reassert yourself and reestablish boundaries time and time again – but how crucial that is for our physical, mental, sexual, emotional and spiritual health. We talk about what love really is – and what it isn’t, and the hard lessons that come with navigating love on it’s own.

We discuss the theme of abandonment that is laced throughout Eternity’s story, and how she’s had to navigate both gender and race as a mixed woman; her Mom from Pakistan and her Dad from Jamaica.

I get excited about all of my conversations with my guests, but there is something about the level of relatability and raw vulnerability in this conversation with Eternity that really got my heart racing.

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LINKS:

Eternity’s Website: www.eternitymartis.com

Eternity’s Instagram: @eterniteee

Eternity on Twitter: @eternitymartis

Frequency Podcast Network: The Safe Haven

Facebook: The Safe Haven

Instagram: @thesafehavenpodcast

Email: [email protected]

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